Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Installing Sniffer Portable Professional
4 Right-click My Computer. Select Manage > Device Manager.
5 In the Network Cards list, select the card you inserted.
6 Right-click on the card and select Update Driver.
7 The Hardware Update Wizard displays. If a dialog box displays
prompting to you to connect to Windows Update to search for
software, select No, not this time and click Next.
8 Select the Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
option. and click Next.
9 Select the Don’t search option and click Next.
10 Click Have Disk.
The Install from Disk dialog box appears prompting you to supply
the path to the driver to install.
11 Click Browse and navigate to the path where the driver for the
selected card is installed. Drivers for 802.11 a/b/g/n cards are
located at the following path:
\NetScout\Sniffer Portable\driver\en\
Use the driver found in the subdirectory corresponding to your
chipset and operating system (for example, \atheros\winxp\ for
an Atheros chipset on Windows XP).
12 Click Open in the Browse dialog box.
You are returned to the Install from Disk dialog box.
13 Click OK on the Install from Disk dialog box.
14 If the operating system is configured to alert you to unsigned
drivers, a dialog box will appear warning you that you are about to
install a driver that has not been verified by Microsoft Corporation.
Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation.
The wizard installs the driver. When it has finished, it displays a
screen indicating that the driver is installed.
15 Click Finish.
16 Click OK to clear the Card Properties dialog box.
17 Reboot the system.
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